News Extra
Below are some news items (extra to those on our home page). They were submitted to the BB Gazette, but weren't published. Please click on the image to view a large version.
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This photo was taken at the DofE Gold Award Celebration event held at Buckingham Palace on 13 May 2024. The remarkable, and probably unprecedented, thing about this photo, which wasn't mentioned when it was published in the Autumn Gazette, is that 3 siblings attended the same celebration event. In the photo are James Bowman (a BBMC committee member and London District Trustee), and his twin sisters (Amelia and Catriona). Catriona did her DofE Residential at our Adventure Camp at Dyffryn Ardudwy in 2023. They kindly invited Graham Hinton (their now retired DofE Leader from 1st Uxbridge - in the photo) to attend the event with them. |
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On 13 January 2024, a BBMC group of leaders, being trained in winter mountaineering, witnessed an accident near the summit of Carnedd Llewellyn when a lady in frront of them, without an ice axe or crampons, slipped and took a long slide on some steep icy snow over some jagged rocks, which opened a 15cm gash in her thigh. The BBMC group treated her injury and led her down to safety, being met by the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team (shown in the photo opposite), just as it was getting dark. The providence of God in this situation was very evident, as the right people were in the right place at the right time with the right equipment! Please click here to read a full report of the incident. |
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The Boys' Brigade have arranged a partnership with PGL to help even more children and young people to have adventures, try new things and develop life skills. The BB also recently announced a highly subsidised Adventure Day Programme, which we also support. But it is mainly delivered by Scout activity centres. We asked BBHQ to also consider partnering with the Christian outdoor centres, some of which are struggling to recover from COVID, but who will provide daily devotions, if required, and whose instructors will also provide good role models for BB young people, as well as being able to share their faith. The larger and less remote Christian outdoor centres were publicised in the Spring Gazette, but the list of all the Christian outdoor centres that we know about was not published in the Autumn Gazette. Please click here to view our list of Christian and other outdoor centres. |
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This was a graphic produced by Jeff Lewis (previous BBMC Chairman) that he asked to be included in the Spring 2024 Gazette to promote the launch of the Outdoor Opportunities page on the BB website, to list the adventure activty providers within the BB and encourage BB leaders to visit the web page for further information. To visit the Outdoor Opportunties web page, please click here. |
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